[Noisebridge-discuss] Declining board nomination

[David Rorex]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Al Billings <abillings at mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 7/22/64 12:06 PM, Rubin Abdi wrote:
> > Tom wrote, On 2012-01-04 22:09:
> >> I have not (yet) developed the ability to read Rubin's mind (also: eew),
> >> but I'll take my best shot. My guess is that he's concerned about
> unchecked
> >> power. If the board/president can block, then it is impossible for the
> >> membership ever to take action to reign in the actions of a
> (hypothetical)
> >> evil and power-hungry oligarchy. Any proposal that the membership makes
> to
> >> try and hinder or stop the awesome power of that fully armed and
> >> operational board/president could simply be blocked by those same evil
> >> geniuses. In short: it's a trap.
> > Bingo. I suggested this during our initial board selection process years
> > ago and not a single person was in support of the idea, so I dropped it.
> >
> > With that being said, how often I voice out against consensus items, and
> > how I would happily dance in the smouldering rubbly remains of what once
> > was Noisebridge, naked covered in (Tofurky fake) goats blood, for the
> > greater good of the community I would much rather not run for a position
> > I see flawed than to hack my way into ruling the space with an iron fist
> > (marinating inside of a latex glove slathered with petroleum jelly,
> > though it was just recommended now I should use a sock puppet and a tiny
> > muppet voice in order to display my dominance when speaking to "lesser"
> > members).
> >
> > As I write this in Berlin, I look out the window of Astera's home (and
> > in the wrong direction) towards Oakland, and wonder how Ace Monster Toys
> > is doing.
>
> We seem to be fine. :-)
>
>
"We seem to be fine" says our current president AND board member AND ace
monster toys member, using his combined powers to turn our hackerspace into
a sweatshop where members are required to solder widgets together for him
for 18 hours a day. And the rest of us are powerless to stop him :(
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